American history

The University at Buffalo in New York held a “Decolonizing Thanksgiving” event last week, which questioned if it was “right to celebrate Thanksgiving” and the United States’ “history of settler colonialism.”

The Nation is honoring this year’s Thanksgiving by featuring a debate over whether America should keep celebrating the national holiday or not. One side is claiming it is “steeped in colonialism, violence, and misrepresentation” and needs to be “decolonized,” while the other goes further, describing Thanksgiving as a “lie” that should be completely abolished and replaced with a “Truthsgiving,” where Americans can “give thanks by… giving land back.” 

Dozens of far-left organizations are demanding the resignation of College Board CEO David Coleman following the organization modifying its AP African American Studies course after the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) rejected it as is, due to the inclusion of woke topics and blatantly leftist talking points.

If you want to undo a nation, you start by falsifying its history until no one remembers anything but the “endless present.” Thus, every Thanksgiving it seems like fewer Americans know the true history of this national holiday commemorating our nation’s founding myth.

Yellowstone National Park announced on Thursday it will be renaming a peak originally dubbed after a cavalryman, who was instrumental in the park’s establishment, due to his name being “offensive.”

A congressionally appointed commission tasked with recommending new names for Army bases named after Confederates unveiled a list of recommendations on Tuesday, which if adopted would see Army bases named after women and black Americans for the first time.

One of two surviving editions of the iconic “Washington Crossing the Delaware” painting is expected to command up to $20 million when it goes up for auction at Christie’s in May, according to reports.

The “1619 Project’s” Nikole Hannah-Jones said of her failure to provide the correct year for the start of the Civil War, “It is what it is.”

No one who knows the true history of the first Thanksgiving can ever doubt that the Pilgrims paid a greater price for their meal than anything we ever will.

The Catholic League reported it is taking the day off for Columbus Day Monday, in honor of Christopher Columbus and not Indigenous Peoples, observing the attacks on the great explorer and the day set aside to honor his memory were inspired by leftist historian Howard Zinn.

Ronald Reagan Education Secretary William J. Bennett has joined forces with the Today Foundation and other education experts to develop The Story of America, a history and civics-based curriculum aimed at combatting the “anti-American ideology that radically misrepresents U.S. history” that has taken over current public education.

Matthew Spalding, vice president of Washington Operations at Hillsdale College, invited parents and educators to combat left-wing revisionist history with his school’s K-12 “1776 curriculum.”

The Biden administration walked back its promotion of a radical Critical Race Theory group in the ed department’s guide to reopening schools.

Education researcher Stanley Kurtz said Secretary Cardona’s comments appearing to back away from Critical Race Theory amount to “bogus window dressing.”

More than 5,000 teachers have signed a Zinn Education Project pledge, vowing to defy laws banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory.

South Dakota lawmakers are using the “letter of intent” to block education bureaucrats from applying for federal grants to teach Critical Race Theory.

Britain’s inaugural professor of ‘Black Studies’ has branded the United States of America a “racist project from its very beginnings”, akin to “Europe on steroids”.

The Biden administration proposed a rule that urges the development of K-12 civics instruction based on Critical Race Theory programs such as the “1619 Project.”

A Rasmussen poll released late last week found 57 percent of likely U.S. voters agree with President Donald Trump’s statement that “restoring patriotic education” is essential to rebuilding a “shared national identity focused on common American values and virtues.”

A look back in U.S. history tells us just how much can change when a president is suddenly replaced by a vice president.

State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford (D) urged the Illinois Board of Education to end U.S. history classes in the state’s public schools.

The University of Kentucky is facing a lawsuit over its plans to remove a mural that depicts various parts of American history. The mural, which has sparked controversy over its depiction of slaves and Native Americans, was painted in 1934 by artist Ann Rice O’Hanlon.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)’s amendment attached to the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act is not simply an effort to rename some military bases named after Confederate leaders but a push to erase American history.

It shouldn’t have to get to this point, but here it goes: We need a written pledge to protect our statues and monuments. That is, a written document for politicians to sign, if they wish, pledging to protect public order and the dignity of our society.

On Friday evening, President Donald Trump said the destroyers of American statues and monuments will receive a minimum of ten years in federal prison if convicted.

President Donald Trump, on Friday evening, said he is signing an executive order to build a new national park named the “National Garden of American Heroes” honoring the “greatest Americans” in United States history.

Two statues depicting George Washington, the United States’ first president, were defaced early Monday morning in New York City’s Washington Square Park.

The would-be statue-topplers know little or nothing about Andrew Jackson, the war hero who defended the nation with courage and resolve.

The time has come for the Department of Justice to prosecute the leaders of this national crime wave under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act for their coordinated efforts to cause destruction and chaos.

U.S. Marshals have been ordered to prepare to help protect historical monuments as left-wing protesters continue to target statues nationwide, according to an email leaked to the Washington Post.

President Donald Trump reacted Monday to an attempt by violent protesters to topple the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square across the street from the White House.

New York City’s American Museum of Natural History announced Sunday that it will remove a statue of former president Theodore Roosevelt from outside its entrance.

Protesters on Wednesday evening beheaded four statues on a Confederate monument in Portsmouth, Virginia, after the monument was defaced with spray paint hours earlier. Protesters told on-scene reporters that one man was badly injured after one of the toppled statues fell on his head.

A deed signed in 1890 that gave Virginia control of the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond prevents its removal, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.

The great events of the past are the lighthouses by which we navigate our present and our future.

We choose the Pilgrims as our founding myth because they embodied our most cherished ideals. They were the best of us. We celebrate their story to acknowledge our highest aspirations, not to whitewash our history or minimize our mistakes. Thanksgiving affirms who we want to be because it is about who the Pilgrims actually were.